PUTAHI WHAKATATETONGA SOUTH FRAME
About
As part of the CitySense South team, LandLAB has provided the creative design leadership for The Te Ara Pū Hā South Frame Public Realm. This transformational regeneration project seeks to create 'an authentic, contemporary and distinctively urban precinct in Christchurch, which uses creative and innovative ecology, landscape and urbanism, to reveal its past, provide a catalyst for its future, and seed a new creative community'.
The South Frame Public Realm consists of 20,000sqm of new public realm distributed over 7 existing former industrial city fringe blocks. The new precinct will support emerging creative, educational and entertainment activities that support the cities renewal.
The public realm network comprises of three key strategic interventions. These are;
‘The Greenway’ - an urban garden which weaves together ecology, site archaeology and social infrastructure into a multi-layered, and episodic ‘journey’ through the site. A new organising and connecting ‘spine’ which enables the environmental, economic and social regeneration of the Precinct.
‘The Lanes’ - a new lane-way system which acknowledges the past whilst enabling the future. North-south connections and destinations deliver accessibility, connectivity, and fine-grained activity.
‘The Yards’ - a network of landscape destinations that enable social, cultural and economic vitality. Supported by a site-specific strategic activation and place-making strategy the Yards are places for connection, engagement and expression revealing the identity and spirit of the Precinct.
Details
2017 - 2023
Date
Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Location
Client
Christchurch City Council
Rau Paenga
Budget
$25M
Collaborators
Aecom
Aurecon
JASMAX
Matapōpore, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu